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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Scientific AmericanThe gene editing method called CRISPR is already used in the lab to insert and remove genome defects in animal embryos -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals NewsResearchers have developed a rapid, simple and safe method for generating large libraries of novel organic molecules in a fraction of the time required for traditional organic synthesis. Researcher hope to provide a 'do it yourself' method.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NSF NewsHumans have evolved to be incredibly efficient at walking. In fact, simulations of human locomotion show that walking on level ground and at a steady speed should theoretically require no power input at all. But anyone who works on their...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
Two phenomena known to inhibit the potential habitability of planets — tidal forces and vigorous stellar activity — might instead help chances for life on certain planets orbiting low-mass stars, University of Washington astronomers have...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesEurope's pioneering probe Rosetta battled breakdowns with navigation and communication with Earth after it ran into blasts of dust and gas from the comet it is tracking, mission control said Thursday.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsClearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show in a study that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.comA group of archaeologists led by Dr Alfred Galik of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has found a complete camel skeleton in a large refuse pit in Tulln, Austria, dating back to the time of the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. “The part...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories(Phys.org)—A pair of space scientists, one with the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas the other with Washington University in St. Lois, has found evidence of a large bulge on Ganymede—the largest satellite in our solar syste...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Scientific AmericanSubstances such as saccharin may alter the type of bacteria inside us, could lead to obesity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsNon-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the more severe form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease that can progress to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, is associated with leakiness of the intestinal wall, which in turn may worsen liver diseas...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesThe microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsAccurate blood pressure measurement is fundamental to the early diagnosis of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, says a review. The diagnosis and management of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, as well as obstetric haemorrhage, sepsi...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Science BlogMedication used to treat patients with type II diabetes activates sensors on brain cells that increase hunger, causing people taking this drug to gain more body fat, according to researchers […]
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn prenatal care, maternal blood screening for extra chromosomes in the fetus is becoming increasingly common. Such tests might give false-positive results if the mother's genome contains more than the usual number of certain DNA segment...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Scientific AmericanScientists debate whether hunting, farming, smallpox or the nuclear bomb define the start of irreversible human impacts on our planet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from New Scientist - NewsElectrodes attached to legs can guide people wherever you want them to go via an app. Welcome to the bizarre world of electro-stimulation
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowOur brains are complex organs, separated into many parts and units for different functions and computations. According to new research published today in PLOS Computational Biology , this compartmental complexity is what helps us learn n...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science News22 genetic variations that are associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer have been identified by an international team of researchers. Prostate cancer affects one out of every 6 men during their lifetime and is the ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org: Astronomy NewsMore than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper telescope at The Australian National University (ANU).
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Scientific AmericanProponents of the practice say it can help relieve postpartum depression, but there are no data to back their assertions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsAnimals come in all different shapes and sizes, but only a few can change their shapes. Researchers in Ecuador recently reported a new species of frog that can change its skin texture from spiny to smooth – the first ever case of a shape...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineVIENNA, AUSTRIA—The complete skeleton of a camel dating to the Second Ottoman War of the seventeenth century was recovered during rescue excavations in the Lower Austrian city of Tulln. Genetic testing revealed that the camel was a...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded. The eight unusual looped structures may offer insights into the puzzling ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsAn illuminating study compares the willingness of stage IV cancer patients, and their caregivers; to pay to extend their lives by one year against that of other end-of-life improvements.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NSF NewsThis is the seventh part in a series on NSF's geosciences risk and resilience interest area. See parts one , two , three , four , five and ... More at http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=134640&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Scientific AmericanA new analysis finds widespread forest loss in Russia and Canada -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsA study of 4,500 U.S. children over 20 years has identified a single test that can predict which kids will become nearsighted by the eighth grade: a measure of their current refractive error. The refractive error, or eyeglasses prescript...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org: Astronomy NewsThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a set of enigmatic quasar ghosts—ethereal green objects which mark the graves of these objects that flickered to life and then faded. The eight unusual looped structures orbit their host gal...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineSAQQARA, EGYPT—Two 6 th Dynasty tombs have been discovered at the site of Tabit El-Geish, according to an announcement made by Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities. Both tombs are painted with offering scenes. The first tomb belon...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsDeaths from cardiovascular disease increase globally while mortality rates decrease, a new report suggests. Cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of premature death in the world, include heart attacks, strokes, and other circulatory...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsA rare bird of prey, once almost extinct in Britain and Ireland, has made a spectacular return to the skies above UK towns thanks to people feeding them, new research has found.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsA new statistical analysis suggests that, in the short term, the Mexican government's war against drugs increased the average murder rate in regions subjected to military-style interventions.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from LiveScience.comArchaeologists recently got a rare chance to excavate one of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds in Britain.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Science BlogAn early-stage clinical trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine conducted at the National Institutes of Health and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) found that the vaccine, called […]
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from SPACE.comSkywatchers around the world can look forward to spotting bright planets throughout April; observers just need to know where to look.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from LiveScience.comEngineers at the University of California-Berkely are developing sensors to detect signs of tissue damage before they fully develop. They also hope to develop a pen-sized version of the 'bandage' for nurses to use for spot checking patie...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Science BlogThe saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” may not hold up to scientific scrutiny. After the plains of southern Kenya experienced a severe drought in 2009 that took […]
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsResearchers from The Australian National University (ANU) are calling for the public to help protect three species of critically endangered birds.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsAbout a quarter of high performing students who began pursuing a bachelor's degree between 2003 and 2009 declared a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) major; however, nearly a third of these students had transferred out of S...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from SPACE.comThe Planetary Society — a nongovernmental space advocacy organization — has announced its support of a plan to send humans into orbit around Mars' moon Phobos by 2033 and to the surface of the Red Planet by 2039.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsAn existing chemotherapy drug used to treat leukemia could prevent and control the growth of colorectal tumors, scientists have discovered.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Science BlogTo kill spam, email filters might need to act a bit more like ants. Deborah M. Gordon, a biology professor at Stanford, has worked with a computer scientist, Fernando Esponda, […]
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsOn hot days, tarantula run faster, but their may be harder to bend and flex at high speeds, researchers find.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Most Popular NewsIn new research, investigators describe compulsive evolution and dramatic genetic diversity in cells belonging to one of the most treatment-resistant and lethal forms of blood cancer: acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The authors suggest the...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Science BlogMeasurement of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood can be used to detect disease recurrence in patients with a curable form of cancer known as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). […]
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesDelving into the world of the extremely small, researchers are exploring how biodegradable nanoparticles can precisely deliver anticancer drugs to attack neuroblastoma, an often-deadly children's cancer.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from LiveScience.comA new map shows the distribution of lightning strikes across the Earth over the past two decades.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Scientific AmericanThe decades-long study of self-control has yielded insights into how we can overcome hardships -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Science BlogA team of scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey found that polar bears, increasingly forced on shore due to sea ice loss, may be eating terrestrial foods including berries, […]
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from LiveScience.comAmericans who travel abroad are bringing back a multidrug-resistant stomach bug that has caused several outbreaks in the United States in the past year.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe Bloodhound car will be bullet-proof as well as fast
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comHave you ever experienced something out of the ordinary and found yourself thinking, "It must be the full moon"? You probably need to read this. For centuries, the moon has been a socially acceptable explanation for any number of odd eve...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsMOSCOW, RUSSIA - Motorcyclists will no longer have to rely on maps or GPS systems, both of which require riders to take their eyes off the road, once a new Russian smart helmet goes on sale this summer.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy: Laura Geggel Published: March 31, 2015 06:30am ET It's no secret that most people accumulate wrinkles on their faces as they age. But now, a 3D analysis of those wrinkles and other signs of aging could reveal a person's age based on ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A paper published Wednesday says polar bears forced onto land because of melting ice are unlikely to find enough food to replace their diet of seals.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NYT > ScienceResearchers suggested that the reduction was largely a result of equipment upgrades, including replacement of leaky old cast-iron or unprotected steel pipe.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsClosing wounds and surgical incisions with a laser is a step closer to reality, Israeli scientists say.
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Monday, March 30, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentResearchers in Denmark have discovered that porpoises can adjust the beams of sound they use to hunt.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWhile the United States is overwhelmingly vaccinated against preventable viruses like measles, mumps and rubella (on account of them coming altogether in one shot), there are certain pockets around the country where vaccination rates are...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentNew renewable generating capacity broke the 100GW barrier in 2014, equivalent to the entire fleet of nuclear power plants in the US, a UN report shows.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from U.S. News - SciencePledge comes as U.S. signs on to global treaty aimed at preventing climate change.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAn intense focus on co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s mental illness in the Germanwings jet crash raised concerns that it could stigmatize mentally ill people and make it harder to identify workers who pose a safety threat.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA one-year experiment asks if learning is more about hard work than natural ability
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAn outline agreement on the future shape of the Iranian nuclear programme is reached after marathon talks between Iran and six major powers.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe product is called snus — a tiny bag of tobacco that users slip between the lip and gum. A Swedish maker claims the product is safer than cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The blackpoll warbler accomplishes a mighty big feat for a such a little bird.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe federal government said Wednesday that it is giving new protections to a species that has been nearly wiped out in some areas by the spread of a fungal disease.
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Monday, March 30, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, sending a U.S.-Russia crew to the International Space Station for a year-long flight, a NASA Television broadcast sh...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThere are more species of birds in Panama than all of North America. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ray Brown, host of the radio program Talkin' Birds , who just returned from the country.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIf you were tasked to end hunger and malnutrition in the world, you might first ask: Where do such vulnerable people live? It may be a surprise that the majority of the world's hungry and malnourished live in large Middle Income Countrie...
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Monday, March 30, 2015 from NYT > ScienceGuinea closed its border with Sierra Leone on Monday as part of new efforts to stamp out Ebola, an official said.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIt's April Fools' Day! What better way to celebrate than to nerd out with some cringeworthy chemistry jokes ? The American Chemical Society has got you covered, with a new round of witticisms in its latest video (above). For instance: "W...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NYT > ScienceA veteran climate scientist and a longtime climate journalist interview each other about three decades of work making sense of global warming.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOn April 24 th , the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 25 years since its launch. This provides an excellent opportunity to very briefly summarize what I regard as Hubble's greatest scientific achievements. I should emphasize two thi...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe new target was submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Tuesday. It is part of a plan for a new international treaty to be hammered out in December in Paris.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from BBC News - Science & Environment£135,000 was spent relocating water voles so work could begin dredging two Somerset rivers in 2014.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NYT > ScienceADM joins other global companies like Cargill, Kellogg and Nestlé in efforts to reduce the environmental impact of producing commodities.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > ScienceScientists say that the warming trend makes it highly likely that California and other parts of the Western United States will see more severe droughts in the future.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsLIVERPOOL, ENGLAND / KADUNA, NIGERIA - A new anti-venom to treat victims of potentially deadly snake bites in sub-Saharan Africa is just a few years away from reality, according to scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceClinicians correctly predict a suicide attempt about half the time — no better than a coin toss. Certain tests of involuntary responses, although still experimental, aim to improve the odds.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWhen 49ers inside linebacker Chris Borland announced his early retirement from the NFL after just one season, the league and fans reacted with shock. But as a father, a neuroscientist and a geriatrician, I can imagine all too well the im...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAt $1.2 billion, Syracuse’s is the largest university endowment to divest entirely of fossil fuel stocks.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWe are increasingly witness to reports about poor deployments of digital platforms for learning that open up students' information to unintended audiences. This is a scary fact not simply for children but for digital citizens writ large;...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceIt's related to herpes. And it infects most of the world — about half of Americans, nearly all the developing world. But don't go out and get infected. The virus has a dark side, too.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NYT > ScienceThe move by Gov. Jerry Brown comes as California’s drought has reached near-crisis proportions after a winter that brought record-low snowfalls.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA program in Hawaii aims to reduce the number of older people who spend their final days of life in a hospital. Hawaii has one of the highest rates of hospital deaths for those over age 65 in the U.S.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from NYT > ScienceScientists warned that the aspen forests could be doomed if emissions of greenhouse gases continue at a high level, adding to other studies that suggest the global effect of climate change.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOil workers in western Siberia recently made a mammoth discovery. Literally. While completing a land reclamation project near the Russian city of Nyagan, the workers noticed something odd in an earth-mover's bucket. When they looked clos...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > ScienceNew research suggests that early hominids may have been far more diverse than previously thought.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceTravelers are bringing a nasty bacterial disease to the U.S. and spreading it to others. The bacteria cause bad diarrhea and are tough to treat because they're resistant to the top antibiotic.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsGENEVA (Reuters) - CERN engineers said on Tuesday they have resolved a problem that had delayed the relaunch after a two-year refit of the Large Hadron Collider particle smasher, which is probing the mysteries of the universe.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comKeep your eyes on the skies on Saturday morning for what promises to be a spectacular -- if brief -- total eclipse of the moon . The totality will last for less than 5 minutes, making it the shortest lunar eclipse of the century , accord...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIn the 1970s, two inhuman creatures—one hairy and tall, another with orange eyes—were spotted in New England. The mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, blamed these monsters not on unreliable testimonies, but recombinant DNA technology, the...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAfter an Ebola death, scientists want to gather more information on the length of time the virus might remain present in semen.
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Monday, March 30, 2015 from NYT > ScienceReaders respond to Times articles about science and health.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentNew clues to how whales communicate
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Sunday, March 29, 2015 from U.S. News - SciencePARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower has gone dark briefly, with lights going out to mark Earth Hour, the campaign to raise awareness about climate change.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe case of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz has focused attention on what Lufthansa, or any employer, can really know about an employee's state of mind. Requiring a psychological evaluation has risks, too.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA novel delivery system for perfume would ensure that a person smells better the more they sweat, scientists have said.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentLarge quantities of plastic debris are building up in the Mediterranean Sea, say scientists.
